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GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Join host Ben as he continues Black Friday Predictions Week with Searchmetrics’ VP of Services Tyson Stockton as they make predictions for Black Friday. Together they share a prediction that Google Shopping is going to take over Black Friday. Google made moves earlier in 2020 by offering Google Shopping […]
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Sharing is caring! A Well-Formed Query Helps a Search Engine Understand User Intent Behind the Query To start this post, I wanted to include a couple of whitepapers with authors from Google. The authors of the first paper are inventors of a patent application from April 28, 2020. It is good seeing a white paper
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We’re excited to offer parent-teacher associations a new fundraising tool this school year that’s free and easy to use. Give with Bing is a new fundraising opportunity from Microsoft that makes it easy to support nonprofits, simply by searching the web with Bing. Now our catalogue includes PTA groups from around the country, because while
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Looks like Google is testing a new dashboard for the location list view in Google My Business. Claire Carlile shared a screen shot of the new design, which basically adds a pencil icon, photo icon and comment icon, with a new verified icon and a see your profile button. You might be able to see
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GUESTS & RESOURCES Episode Overview: Join host Ben as he concludes Black Friday Predictions Week with Searchmetrics’ VP of Services Tyson Stockton, as they predict the most searched for product this holiday season – the Playstation 5. The new X-Box, iPhone 12 series and Playstation 5 are expected to top the Black Friday electronics categories
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Sharing is caring! Changes to How Google Might Rank Image Search Results We are seeing more machine learning in how Google ranks pages and images in search results. That may leave what we know as traditional, or old school ranking signals behind. It is worth looking at those older ranking signals because they may play
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As Bing continues to evolve, we’re focused on expanding the ways in which you can use Bing. For example, did you know that Bing powers InPrivate search with Microsoft Edge, quick searches in the Windows taskbar, work search scenarios with Microsoft 365, immersive gaming in Microsoft Flight Simulator, and much more? That’s why starting today, you
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How do you sum up how Google renders and crawls web sites in about two minutes? Well, John Mueller of Google was tasked to do just that and he managed to do it in this video. John answered what crawl budget is, and whether the web rendering service reduces crawl budget. He described how caching
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Structured data is a standardized way to provide information about a web page. It helps search engines like Google to better understand what your content is about. But what’s in it for you, and how do you implement it? Let’s get into it! How structured data helps your SEO First things first, structured data is
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Sharing is caring! Entity Seeking Queries and Semantic Dependency Trees Queries for some searches may be entity seeking queries. Someone may ask, “What is the hotel that looks like a sail.” That query may look for an entity such as the building, the Burj Al Arab Jumeirah. That entity may be identified by looking at
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